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See-Shell, Heroic Transparent Spy by BBM

Well, some of you knew he was coming from my little avatar sneak-peek, and I know a lot of you saw the awesome, classic-style figure COTU made of him, but now you can see the glass shrimp as you've never seen him before:

See-Shell, in Buffalo-Bill-Man style!!!

Here he is full-color:

and in his stealth mode:

and just for fun, a work-in-progress, pencil sketch just to show the bare bones of the process:

and for those of you who have never heard of him before; See-Shell is a fan-created character created by myself with the help of Skeletoncrew and Galaxy Warrior of COTU fame. His inspiration was from my old avatar, and screen-name of Glass Shrimp.

His bio:"See-Shell is a member of the Heroic Masters small, but elite, underwater forces. He is a member Crustie Race, the same basic species as Clawful, but of a rare breed that has different and unique powers, and does not share the same cruel temperment. Equally at home on land and sea, the already translucent See-Shell possesses the ability to become completely invisible when it suits his needs. Such as when gathering information on Skeletors' dastardly schemes, or when sneaking up on a couple of Evil Warriors in battle! See-Shell considers it his duty to take the fight to all the evil Crusties, but one in particular has become his nemesis, the deadly Lobscure."

I really like him! I'd be scared of a crab man... especially a giant invisible crab man...

I like the bio as well. Not all crab men have to be evil right? I can't help it though, it does sound funny to say the "Crustie" race, sounds like crusty. Maybe Crustacea would have a better ring to it, or a snap, or crackle, or pop, whatever crab men do. Ha ha

You don't like the name See-Shell? Are you kidding me? We deliberated forever over his name... originally Lobscure was going to be his name, but then it was decided that make a better dark, mysterious, villainous name... I'll have to try and dig up the thread where me SC and GW debated out a name for him to show some of the rejects... some of them were quite funny. Oh well, See-Shell is his name, and has been stuck to him far too long to change it now, but seriously give a little time, it will grow on you...

Well here is the thread where I came up with the names... I guess not all the back and forth got recorded because I just toss out both names in finished form right here ...

Originally Posted by Glass Shrimp

yeah, Glass Shrimp was never intended to be a truly "MotU" name, but I was trying to come up with something to describe him as being a crustacean, so words like crab, shrimp, crayfish, lobster, shell, claw, water, etc, and transparent, like glass, crystal, see-through, clear, etc.

Just putting words together I just came up with See-Shell, which is vaguely on the right MotU track I think...

Another one occurs to me Lobscure, kind of awkward / dorky, but very MotU-ish.

P.S. Here is an image off the net of a glass shrimp, if that helps as inspiration to anyone: